Popular names in Russia
I can only find the Top 90 boys and girls names in Russia. I'd like a longer list. Does anyone know wheere I can get this?I'm searching for the popularity of Kazimir amoung other names.
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Where did you find the top 90?! I haven't seen a list of more than the top 10 or 15, and that of all people alive in Russia, not just recently born infants.
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They are not in numerical order, but in alphabetical.boys - http://www.masterrussian.com/aa031701a.shtml
girls - http://www.masterrussian.com/aa031001a.shtml
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Thank you very much for the link!However, there seems to be no indication on these sites as to how these lists were created. I would assume that if the lists were created from actual statistics it would say that they were the 90 first names most widely used. So these may be lists created from the subjective experience of the author of the site, rather than from actual frequency data.
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I checked the list, and I am highly skeptical about it.The example that I tried to verify: "Spartak" among the 90 most popular given names for boys at the moment in Russia? When everybody immediately associates this with the famous sport club "Spartak Moscow" and the film about Spartacus, the slave? Who wants to be named after a sports club or a slave that lived 2000 years ago? Well, everything is possible, but this just does not strike me as probable.One more hint: A Google search for "Господин Роберт" (Mr. Robert) gives a lot of hits, but "Господин Спартак" (Mr. Spartak) only very few.
Rene     www.AboutNames.ch

This message was edited 8/9/2006, 11:51 PM

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